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Back in New York, the money began to roll in and it has never stopped. Like a factory, Christy turned out magazine covers, illustrations, posters. The Christy Girl began to vie with the Gibson Girl in popularity. Two of his best-known models he married: Mabelle Thompson and the present Mrs. Nancy May Palmer Christy. In 1921 he felt himself sufficiently secure financially to give up illustrating and strike out as a painter of celebrities. Since then he has heard Benito Mussolini play the violin, has dined with Marie of Rumania, has made recognizable likenesses of Crown Prince Umberto...
...innovations are in line for athletically inclined House members. On November 18 a new House Indoor Baseball League will have its first games, and later, possibly before Christmas, House track teams will vie in dual meets with one another...
Lowell is scheduled to vie with Dudley Hall if the Ramblers can field an all-Dudley team, a feat which they have failed to accomplish yet. The Bellboys, who have lost only to Adams, should put up a good appearance against any new-born team the Ramblers might show...
...same meal, the least the French department can do is teach him how correctly to describe his predicament. The French A student is prepared to read "L'Illustration", but he cannot quote, without the largest misgivings, a "New Yorker" article mentioning "crepes suzettes," or the "joie de vie...
Bedocked in their flannel blazers, Harvard's band will vie in tricky formations with the cadets at West Point tomorrow. 96 men strong, they will appear in Michie Stadium at one o'clock on the game afternoon to parade for twenty minutes, when they will relinquish the field to the cadets. Again between halves the band will show its wares to the accompaniment of "Wintergreen", the perennial favorite...